My thoughts for the day...

So i am reading the sequel to the Final Quest, the Call. So far it has been just as exciting and convicting as the original. I just went thru a chapter called "The Prison," and it was talking about how believers are chained in a prison, and sometimes they don't even know it. The popular guard of this prison is fear, including fear of deception. Rick Joyner writes, "He (Satan) sidetracks many by having them fear more in his power to deceive than to have faith in the power of the Holy Spirit to lead them in all truth." It got me thinking. So many times, believers come together and are so adament about staying on their guard against the enemy, or combatting the enemy, when i believe our number one focus should be on God. I heard somewhere that believers spend more time taking notice of Satan (in a sense glorifying him), rather than God. I began to think about my life and tried to see if at all i was a prisoner to this fear, and what i found was hard and sad. I know, so many times, that i look to all things negative as if they were from Satan, when in essence the negative things in ones life could quite possibly be from God. I so many times believe that when life isn't going my way, my God wouldn't be the one punishing me, and i am beginning to find out, that is absolutely right. A lot of the time God isn't punishing me, but just disciplining me. I am beginning to realize the only way to combat this, is to focus on who my God really is. So many times i am finding myself focusing in on God... but more so who i want Him to be, it doesn't work that way...!! Well until next time... adios.. and much love!!